The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-01
Passage Of the Railroad Commission
Bill by the Senate.
OTHER MEASURES OF GENERAL INTEREST
PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES.
Special 10 the Pdldfkd yelrs.

Senate, to-day, passed, among others,
the following bills Regulating fees to
be charged by circuit clerks for certify
ing abstracts and records; providing for
the reward of persons for killing beasts
of prey; Incorporating the st. Augustine
yacht club and incorporating the Elec-
tric Light and power Company, of Pen
sacola; requiring the physicians in charge
of the Lunatic Asylum to keep a record
of treatment of each case; fixing the
boundaries of the town of Barlow; pre-
scribing the jurisdiction of criminal
courts of record; prescribing duties of
the State Superintendent of Public in
instruction; fixing the pay of members
and attaches, ETC., of the Legislature;
prescribing the rules of practice and
pleading in county courts; protecting the
fresh water fisheries of the State; pro-
vidng for the appointment of harbor
masters.
THE MECHANICS LIEN BILL PASSED.
In the House the Mechanics Lien
law passed as it came from the Senate
without amendment. The House con-
CURED in the Senate amendments to the
bill providing for the payment of the
claim of Ocala for aid rendered to the
East Florida Seminary; and the bill pro
tecting fresh water fisheries; and passed
the bill allowing certain persons to mine
phosphates, but reconsidered the vote ON
the latter
The committee substitute for the bill
to establish a Bureau of Agriculture and
providing for the inspection of fertilizers
was considered and debated at length in
the House, the point of contest being
whether fees should be charged for in
spection, portion of which should go
to support the Agricultural College or
the analysis and inspection be done
without fees by the State Chemist. The
bill was finally disposed of.
Master Walter Seay, of fernando
County, was appointed an extra page
and his appointment made to date back
to the commencement of the session.
Senator Bryan introduced into the
Senate bill providing for the division
of counties into school districts. This is
posed during the session.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION BILL.
The Senate ordered the re-engrossment
of Senate Bill No. 1, the Railroad Com
mission Bill, which was found, yester-
day, to be improperly engrossed.
ACTS SIGNED.
Messages from the Governor an
nounced the signing of the following
acts: Incorporating the Etoniah Canal
and Drainage Company; preventing the
pollution of the waters of Lake Louise
and other lakes and ponds in Putnam
and Volusia Counties; dividing the DIFF
ferent counties into commissioners dis
tricts; amending the charter of the Mon
ticello and Georgia Railway; amending
the act fixing the time of holding court
in the Fifth Circuit.
The Apportionment Bill came up in
the House ON amendments offered by the
committee which were concurred in and
the bill passed.
RAPID LEGISLATION.
One of the members from Jackson,
Major Clark, is entitled to the premium
for successful rapid legislation. About
IL o'clock, to-day, he intro.
-huced n joint resolution for
for mail route between two Jackson Co.
villages; had it passed through three
readings in about ten minutes and re-
ported it at once to the Senate where it al
sopassed three readings and was reported
back to the House before the adjourn
ment of the afternoon session.
The bill creating Pasco County from
the southern portion of fernando and
the Senate substitute also creating Citrus
County from the northern portion of the
same is creating considerable merriment
among the members, who call the in
FAINT counties the Siamese Twins, be-
cause they are connected by a slight
ligament, which will hereafter be known
as fernando county, and which is a
mere strip of country lying before the
two new and splendid principalities.
NIGHT WORK.
The Senate tonight confirmed III. l..
Mitchell as Judge of the Fifth Circuit.
The House passed the following bills
among others: To purchase and preserve
new township maps for the land office;
topunish the driving and penning of cat
tie unknown to the owners; to authorize
administrators and executors to sell notes
and accounts; to incorporate the Palatka
Banking and Trust Company; to grant
lands to the Orange Canal and Transit
Company to prohibit railroad COM
panies running engines without spark
extinguishers; to incorporate the Florida
and Gulf Land Company.
The Senate defeated Wallis resolution
allowing females to vote on the local
option amendment to Article XIX,
passed the bill to incorporate the st.
Lucia and Lakeland Railway company.
The Governor announced by message
to the House the signing of the follow
ing bills: Relating to the duties of
County Commissioners and County
Treasurers: relating to the fees of various
county officers; incorporating the Key of
the Gulf Raih oad Company; incorporat-
ing the Alabama Midland Railway Com
pany; also by message to the Senate the
signing of the following bills: Providing
for the establishment of State normal
schools; incorporating the City Bank of
Pensacola; to establish the municipality
of Jacksonville, ETC.; to incorporate the
Florida Fruit Exchange. CHoAfE